Hello,

Hello,

Hello everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and I sort of almost forgot how to do the introduction.

It has been that long.

It has not been that long for my co-host today, Mr. Joe Lowry.

Hello, Joe.

How you doing, buddy?

I am well, Taylor.

It's good to hear you do the

intro again. I think we're easing you back in bit by bit, step by step. You and I did a show. Was that last week already? Man, it was. You and I did a show, and then this week, you're back doing the intro, and it just feels right, doesn't it? It does. I know that I frequently say time has lost all meaning, especially during the pandemic.

When you add a three-week-old to the equation,

that could have been yesterday. I know that I frequently say time has lost all meaning, especially during the pandemic.

When you add a three-week-old to the equation, that could have been yesterday. It could have been a month ago. I don't really know for sure. But I did sort of assume I still knew how to do the intro. And then as I started, it was like, it's definitely hello and welcome. I know that much. We'll see where we go from here. But you and Ryan have obviously been doing an excellent job taking over and putting out content, lovely content, wonderful content, I would say. But I have felt

like the lack of men's national team coverage in my life, as in I haven't been talking about them,

and there's been a lot going on. I feel like I've missed a decent amount of Americans doing things in Europe, doing things in Major League Soccer, certainly. And I know you've been talking about that one. But I think Joe, we had the idea to do a little bit U.S. men's national team catch up from a Americans abroad perspective. So I think you've selected a few names that we're going to take a look at and just sort of have a general chat about some of the players who are doing big things or not quite as big things, but hopefully big things in Europe. I know this wasn't your intention, but man, that was really clever of you to let people know that I made the list of players we're talking about. Just in case there's somebody on that list that either people didn't want to hear about or someone that didn't make the list that people did want to hear about. That way all that flat comes right

to me. Taylor, you slide dog. That's really, really clever. And as always, we really, really

appreciated and love it when people just respond to the tweeted out show link with no blank,

no player's name. That's always the best way to get things across. Yes, there would be some people we don't discuss. Camacardo Vickers, not on the list today. But Joe, you were like, I'll throw out some possible ones. And I was just like, yep, all of those are perfect. Let's talk about all of those names. And let's do so now. Let's start in Spain. Barcelona played Valencia this past weekend, a two-two draw, which saw two Americans, one on either side of the pitch. Which one would you like to start with, Joe? Let's start with Sergenio Dest. It just feels, it feels proper, it feels right, right? He started at right back for Barcelona in this two-two draw. I'm still not over it. And maybe this will be a theme throughout the

episode. I'm still not over the fact that an American United States men's national team player

is a starting right back or a starting player at all for Barcelona. That still kind of shocks me.

Now I interject, just to say, forgive me, just to say, literally my first note is, first of all, it is insane that an

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